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Well, i didn't feel that i could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they did to make it possible for me to be who i am, if i sort of just put it at the beginning of a book about my last eight years in foreign policy.
-Condoleezza Rice
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Well, I Didn't Feel That I Could

Condoleezza Rice
Well, i didn't feel that i could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they did to make it possible for me to be who i am, if i sort of just put it at the beginning of a book about my last eight years in foreign policy.
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